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SPECIAL 2022 UC3 SUMMIT EDITION
UC3 Dispatch | August 2022
Header Photo Credit: University of British Columbia
The 2022 University Climate Change Coalition (UC3) Summit was a two-day event (June 23-24, 2022) held in-person at the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus in Vancouver, Canada. This event was attended by 30 representatives from the following UC3 member institutions:
The conversations over the two-day Summit were spread across four sessions. Brief summaries from each session are below. The full Summit summary can be viewed here.
Session One:
Drawing on Success and Lessons Learned
- Operational knowledge-sharing efforts across UC3 campuses have provided value.
- Resources are primarily being used on campus-level activity rather than network-wide activity.
- Comparative case studies may be a helpful tool leveraging campus-scale activity.
Session Two:
Bridging Academic Research and Operational Excellence
- Leveraging relationships at a community level, for example: the Midwest Climate Collaborative.
- There are limited resources available for collaboration on interdisciplinary teams.
- Focusing on community bridging as part of the goals in the Strategic Plan.
Session Three:
Progress Towards Strategic Plan Goals in 2022-23
- Actions to prioritize on the campus level include focusing on student-centered actions and encouraging student involvement in climate leadership.
- On the community level, actions to prioritize are replicating cross-regional collaboration like the Midwest Climate Collaborative.
- Expand into collaboration with Canadian and Mexican universities
- On the global level, actions to prioritize include using COP27 as an opportunity for global collaboration.
Photo Credit: UBC
Session Four:
Resourcing to Support Priority Actions
- Major resource categories include: social and human capital; political capital; institutional capital; and financial resources.
- One idea to pursue with present funding, is to embed justice and equity into the UC3 Strategic Plan.
- With expanded funding, another idea to pursue, is to create a three-country trans-disciplinary research project.
Photo Credit: UBC
For questions about information in this Dispatch issue or UC3 in general, please contact: Mia Sen (msen@secondnature.org).
The University Climate Change Coalition (UC3) Dispatch newsletter, is an opportunity for UC3 members to share how they are accelerating climate action on campuses, in communities, and at a global scale. The Dispatch is also a chance for UC3 to highlight both the individual and collaborative actions that members are taking to implement the goals and strategies included in the 2020-2025 UC3 Strategic Plan (click here).
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